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Occupy Portland Radio Air Show 8/29/12

In this episode we take a look back at some of our favorite pieces, stitching them together to entice you, yes...you, to listen to out archive of past shows. They don't suck. Read more

Joe talks about Coal Trains through Oregon

Airs at: Tue, 08/21/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris.  Abe Proctor is on Vacation. Today's topic is the Coal Industry, and their plans to chop down Mountains in Appalacia and ship them through the Columbia Gorge, to China for incineration.  This is a Bad Idea for many reasons.  The trains leak significant ... Read more

Bill Smaldone: History of Social Democratic Party - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 08/20/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone start a two-part conversion about the German Social Democratic party in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Smaldone lays out the historical context of the consolidating and industrializing German state, then explains how the Social Democrats emerged... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 13 August 2012

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement hosts this week's show and we hear these segments: --> Bill Resnick concludes his interview with Chris Toensing about the Arab Spring and its implications for the West. (Part One of their conversation is here.) --> Joe and Iven Hale review the Canadian film The ... Read more

Capitalist Realism reviewed (there is an alternatve)

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel reviews Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism, which argues that the idea that only capitalism is realistic is itself a distorted ideology. Fisher tries to make complex theory accessible, and highlights the contradictory impacts of capitalism on mental health (... Read more

Chris Toensing on the Arab Spring Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 08/13/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick concludes his interview with Chris Toensing about the Arab Spring and its implications for the West. You can find Part One here. In this audio, they briefly review their earlier conversation, and they discuss the destabilizing effects of competition for oil reso... Read more

Fighting Coal Transport Through the Pacific Northwest: Reform and Revolution.

Airs at: Fri, 08/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Oregon and Washington have dramatically reduced coal-powered energy generation. As a result coal companies are pushing to export tens of millions of tons of coal from Montana and Wyoming, through Pacific Northwest ports, to Asian markets. The coal would pass through do... Read more

Hey sports fans! The Olympics, and other sports, are good things!

Airs at: Tue, 08/07/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor.  Joe Uris is on Vacation.   As longtime listeners know, Abe sometimes waxes poetic about soccer. And when he does, he gets a generous helping of grief from listeners. But in the midst of theOlympic Games -- and after one of the greatest soccer matc... Read more

Movie Moles: Heist - who stole the American Dream?

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Frann Michel and Hyung Name review "Heist: who stole the American Dream." Directed Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, narrated by Tom Hartman, based in part on the book "The Global Class-War: how Amerian's bi-partisan elite lost our future and what it'll take to win." H... Read more

Well-read Red: Do They Owe Us A Living? 'Course they do, 'course they do!

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement reads Peter Frase's case against the assumption of wage-labor in both capitalism and market-socialist visions of a fucture economy. Frase argues for a universal basic income, explaining why it would more directly address the problems with wage-labor, make it mor... Read more